Walfredo Cirne

 

Résumé

 

1. Contact and Additional Information

• Phone:
  +55 83 310 1365

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• Web:
  http://walfredo.dsc.ufcg.edu.br

2. Education

• PhD in Computer Science
  University of California San Diego
  San Diego - CA - USA
  September 1996 to February 2001

• MS in Computer Science
  Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  Campina Grande - PB - Brazil
  December 1991 to December 1992

• BS in Computer Science
  Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  Campina Grande - PB - Brazil
  March 1988 to November 1991

3. Employment

• Professor at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Departamento de Sistemas e Computação
  July 1995 to present
  Activities:

  • Lecturer in graduate and undergraduate classes

  • Researcher in Distributed and Parallel Computing

  • Advisor of Masters and Ph.D. Students

• Technical Director of Campina Grande's Centre in the SoftEX 2000 (Brazilian Government Software Program) July 1993 to June 1995
  Activities:

  • Network technical support

  • Software development manager

• Assistant Professor at Universidade Tecnologica do Amazonas (Technical University of Amazonas) January to July 1993
  Department of Data Processing
  Activity:

  • Lecturer of the Operating Systems course

• Systems Analyst at Banco do Estado do Amazonas (Amazonas State Bank)
  November 1992 to July 1993
  Activities:

  • Network technical support

  • Software development

4. Awards and Honors

• IEEE Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding services as Program Chair of the 7^th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007)
  November 2007

• Researcher scholarship for high research productivity from CNPq, Brazil
  March 2004 to present 

• Honor mention for the paper Using Remote Memory to Stabilise Data Efficiently on an EXT2 Linux File System, published at the SBRC 2002 - 20th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks
  May 2002

• Top scorer on the Computer Science and Engineering Comprehensive Examination, University of California San Diego 
  Fall 1997

• Scholarship to support Ph.D. studies from CAPES, Brazil September 1996 to August 1998

• Scholarship to support Master's studies from CNPq, Brazil December 1991 to December 1992

• Scholarship for undergraduate students from CNPq, Brazil March 1988 to November 1991

• 6th place in the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad November 1987
  Main award: Participated in the 29th International Mathematical Olympiad, in Canberra - Australia, in June 1988

5. Selected Publications

• Automatic Grid Assembly by Promoting Collaboration in Peer-to-Peer Grids
  Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, Miranda Mowbray
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67, no. 8, pages 957-966
  August 2007

• On the Efficacy, Efficiency and Emergent Behavior of Task Replication in Large Distributed Systems
  Walfredo Cirne, Daniel Paranhos, Francisco Brasileiro, Luís Fabrício W. Góes, William Voorsluys
  Parallel Computing, vol. 33, no. 3, pages 213-234
  April 2007

• Labs of the World, Unite!!!
  Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Nazareno Andrade, Lauro Costa, Alisson Andrade, Reynaldo Novaes, Miranda Mowbray 
  Journal of Grid Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pages 225-246
  September 2006

• Running Bag-of-Tasks Applications on Computational Grids: The MyGrid Approach
  Walfredo Cirne, Daniel Paranhos, Lauro Costa, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Francisco Brasileiro, Jacques Sauvé, Fabrício Alves Barbosa da Silva, Carla Osthoff Barros, Cirano Silveira
  Proceedings of the ICCP'2003 - International Conference on Parallel Processing
  October 2003

• When the Herd is Smart: The Aggregate Behavior in the Selection of Job Request
  Walfredo Cirne and Francine Berman
  IEEE Transactions in Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, pages 181-192 
  February 2003

• Using Moldability to Improve the Performance of Supercomputer Jobs
  Walfredo Cirne and Francine Berman
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 62, no. 10, pages 1571-1601
  October 2002

6. Publications

• Obtaining Trustworthy Test Results in Muti-threaded Systems
  Ayla Dantas, Matheus Gaudencio, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedgins of the 22th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES'2008)
  October 2008

• On the Impact of the Data Redundancy Strategy on the Recoverability of Friend-to-Friend Backup Systems
  Marcelo Iury S. Oliveira, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Dalton Guerrero
  Proceedgins of the 26th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC'2008)
  May 2008

• Allocation Strategies for Utilization of Space Shared Resources in Bag of Tasks Grids
  César De Rose, Tiago Ferreto, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Walfredo Cirne, Lauro Costa, Daniel Fireman
  Future Generation of Computer Systems, vol. 24, no. 5, pages 331-341.
  May 2008

• Improving Automated Testing of Multi-threaded Software
  Ayla Dantas, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro
  Proceedings of First International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST 2008)
  April 2008

• Relative Autonomous Accounting for Peer-to-Peer Grids
  Robson Santos, Alisson Andrade, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Nazareno Andrade
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 19, no. 14, pages 1937-1954.
  September 2007

• Fostering Collaboration to Better Manage Water Resources
  Eliane Araújo, Walfredo Cirne, William Voorsluys, Carlos Galvão, Enio Souza, Enilson Cavalcanti
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 19, no. 12, pages 1609-1620.
  August 2007

• Grid Computing in the Optimization of Content-Based Medical Images Retrieval
  Marcelo Oliveira, Paulo Marques, Walfredo Cirne.
  Radiologia Brasileira, vol. 40, pages 255-262.
  July/August 2007

• Automatic Grid Assembly by Promoting Collaboration in Peer-to-Peer Grids
  Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, Miranda Mowbray
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67, no. 8, pages 957-966
  August 2007

• On the Efficacy, Efficiency and Emergent Behavior of Task Replication in Large Distributed Systems
  Walfredo Cirne, Daniel Paranhos, Francisco Brasileiro, Luís Fabrício W. Góes, William Voorsluys
  Parallel Computing, vol. 33, no. 3, pages 213-234
  April 2007

• Towards applying content-based image retrieval in the clinical routine
  Marcelo Oliveira, Walfredo Cirne and Paulo Marques
  Future Generation of Computer Systems, vol. 23, no. 3, pages 466-474
  March 2007

• Promoting Performance and Separation of Concerns for Data Mining Applications on the Grid
  Vasco Furtado, Francisco Flávio de Souza, Walfredo Cirne
  Future Generation of Computer Systems, vol. 23, no. 1, pages 100-107
  January 2007

• Sandboxing for a Free-to-join Grid with Support for Secure Site-wide Storage Area
  Edjozane Cavalcanti, Leonardo Assis, Matheus Gaudêncio, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Reynaldo Novaes
  Proceedgins of the First International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (VTDC 2006)
  November 2006

• A Case for Event-Driven Distributed Objects
  Aliandro Lima, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Daniel Fireman
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2006)
  October 2006

• A WSDM-based Architecture for Global Usage Characterization of Grid Computing Infrastructures
  Glauco Ludwig, Luciano Gaspary, Gerson Cavalheiro, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of the 17th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management Large Scale Management (DSOM 2006)
  October 2006

• A Reciprocation-Based Economy for Multiple Services in Peer-to-Peer Grids
  Miranda Mowbray, Francisco Brasileiro, Nazareno Andrade, Jaindson Santana, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'06)
  September 2006

• Labs of the World, Unite!!!
  Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Nazareno Andrade, Lauro Costa, Alisson Andrade, Reynaldo Novaes, Miranda Mowbray
  Journal of Grid Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pages 225-246
  September 2006

• Evaluating Architectures for Independently Auditing Service Level Agreements
  Ana Carolina Benjamim, Jacques Sauvé, Walfredo Cirne, Mirna Carelli
  Future Generation of Computer Systems, vol. 22, no. 7, pages 721-731
  August 2006

• Multi-Environment Software Testing on the Grid
  Alexandre Duarte, Gustavo Wagner, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of the Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing and Debugging (PADTAD IV)
  July 2006

• EasyAccept: A Tool to Easily Create, Run and Drive Development with Automated Acceptance Tests
  Jacques Sauvé, Osório Abath Neto, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST'06)
  May 2006

• GridUnit: Software Testing on the Grid
  Alexandre Duarte, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Patrícia Machado
  Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006)
  May 2006

• Using AOP to Braing a Project Back in Shape: The OurGrid Case
  Ayla Dantas, Walfredo Cirne, Katia Saikoski
  Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, vol. 11, no. 3, pages 21-35
  April 2006

• A Process for Separation of Crosscutting Grid Concerns
  Paulo Henrique Maia, Nabor Mendonça, Vasco Furtado, Walfredo Cirne, Katia Saikoski
  Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'2006)
  April 2006

• Collaborative Fault Diagnosis in Grids through Automated Tests 
  Alexandre Nóbrega Duarte, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, José Salatiel A. Filho
  Proceeding of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'2006)
  April 2006

• The SegHidro Experience: Using the Grid to Empower a Hydro-Meteorological Scientific Network
  Eliane Araújo, Walfredo Cirne, Gustavo Wagner, Nigini Abílio, Enio Souza, Carlos Galvão, Eduardo S. Martins
  Proceedings of the eScience 2005: 1st IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid Computing
  December 2005

• Transparent Resource Allocation to Explot Idle Cluster Nodes in Computational Grids
  Marco Netto, Rodrigo Calheiros, Rafael Silva, César De Rose, Caio Northfleet, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of the eScience 2005: 1st IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid Computing
  December 2005

• Accurate Autonomous Accounting in Peer-to-Peer Grids
  Robson Santos, Alisson Andrade, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Nazareno Andrade
  Proceedgins of the 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC2005) 
  November 2005

• Can dynamic provisioning and rejuvenation systems coexist in peace?
  Raquel Lopes, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Eduardo Colaço
  Proceedgins of the 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management Workshop (DSOM'05)
  October 2005

• Using the Computational Grid to Speed up Software Testing 
  Alexandre Nóbrega Duarte, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Patricia Machado 
  Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
  October 2005

• Converting Space Shared Resources into Intermittent Resources for use in Bag-of-Tasks Grids
  Lauro Beltrão Costa, Walfredo Cirne, Daniel Fireman
  Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'2005)
  October 2005

• AnthillSched: A Scheduling Strategy for Irregular and Iterative I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs
  Luís Fabrício Góes, Bruno Coutinho, Leonardo Rocha, Pedro Guerra, Wagner Meira Jr, Renato Ferreira, Dorgival Guedes, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of 11th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
  June 2005

• Fast Adaptable Uniform Consensus Using Global State Digests
  Andrey Brito, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne
  Anais do VI Workshop de Testes e Tolerância a Falhas
  (Proceedings of VI Workshop on Tests and Fault Tolerance)
  May 2005

• Grids Computacionais: Da Computação de Alto Desempenho a Serviços sob Demanda
  (Computational Grids: From High-Performance Computing to On-Demand Services)
  Walfredo Cirne, Elizeu Santos-Neto
  Mini-curso no 23º Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores
  (Mini-class on the 23rd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks)
  May 2005

• Using Process Restarts to Improve Dynamic Provisioning
  Raquel Lopes, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro
  Proceedings of the 15th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM'2004)
  November 2004

• Scheduling in Bag-of-Task Grids: The PAUÁ Case
  Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Nazareno Andrade, Lauro Costa, Daniel Paranhos, Elizeu Santos-Neto, César De Rose, Tiago Ferreto, Miranda Mowbray, Roque Scheer, João Jornada
  Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD'2004) 
  October 2004

• Discouraging Free Riding in a Peer-to-Peer CPU-Sharing Grid
  Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, Miranda Mowbray
  Proceedings of the 13th High Performance Distributed Computing Symposium
  June 2004

• Exploiting Replication and Data Reuse to Efficiently Schedule Data-intensive Applications on Grids
  Elizeu Santos-Neto, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Aliandro Lima
  Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
  June 2004

• Independently Auditing Service Level Agreements in the Grid
  Ana Carolina Barbosa, Jacques Sauvé, Walfredo Cirne, Mirna Carelli
  Proceedings of the 11th HP OpenView University Association Workshop (HPOVUA 2004)
  June 2004

• When Can an Autonomous Reputation Scheme Discourage Free-riding in a Peer-to-Peer System?
  Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro
  Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing
  April 2004

• Faults in Grids: Why are they so bad and What can be done about it?
  Raissa Medeiros, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Jacques Sauvé
  Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2003)
  November 2003

• Running Bag-of-Tasks Applications on Computational Grids: The MyGrid Approach
  Walfredo Cirne, Daniel Paranhos, Lauro Costa, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Francisco Brasileiro, Jacques Sauvé, Fabrício Alves Barbosa da Silva, Carla Osthoff Barros, Cirano Silveira
  Proceedings of the ICCP'2003 - International Conference on Parallel Processing
  October 2003

• Non-Dedicated Distributed Environment: A Solution for Safe and Continuous Exploitation of Idle Cycles
  Reynaldo Novaes, Paulo Roisenberg, Roque Scheer, Caio Northfleet, João Jornada, Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of the AGridM 2003 - Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware
  September 2003

• Grid Computing for Bag of Tasks Applications
  Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Jacques Sauvé, Nazareno Andrade, Daniel Paranhos, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Raissa Medeiros
  Proceedings of the Third IFIP Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business and E-Goverment
  September 2003

• Trading Cycles for Information: Using Replication to Schedule Bag-of-Tasks Applications on Computational Grids
  Daniel Paranhos, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro
  Proceedings of the Euro-Par 2003: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing
  August 2003

• OurGrid: An Approach to Easily Assemble Grids with Equitable Resource Sharing
  Nazareno Andrade, Walfredo Cirne, Francisco Brasileiro, Paulo Roisenberg
  Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
  June 2003

• How Bad Are Wrong Suspicions: Towards Adaptive Distributed Protocols
  Lívia Sampaio, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, Jorge Abrantes
  Proceedings of the DSN-2003 - The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
  June 2003

• Desenvolvimento de Uma Ferramenta de Tratamento de Eventos em Redes Elétricas
  (Development of a Tool for Electric Network Event Processing)
  Alexandre Nóbrega Duarte, Jacques Philippe Sauvé, Walfredo Cirne, Marcus Costa Sampaio, Jorge César Abrantes de Figueiredo, Eloi Rocha Neto, Maria do Socorro Cavalcante de Melo, Antônio Sérgio de Araújo
  Anais do V Simpósio de Automação Sistemas Elétricos
  (Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Electrical System Automation)
  May 2003

• Adaptive Computing on the Grid Using AppLeS
  Fran Berman, Rich Wolski, Henri Casanova, Walfredo Cirne, Holly Dail, Marcio Faerman, Silvia Figueira, Jim Hayes, Graziano Obertelli, Jennifer Schopf, Gary Shao, Shava Smallen, Neil Spring, Alan Su, Dmitrii Zagorodnov
  IEEE Transactions in Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 14, no. 4, pages 369-382 
  April 2003

• When the Herd is Smart: The Aggregate Behavior in the Selection of Job Request
  Walfredo Cirne and Francine Berman
  IEEE Transactions in Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 14, no. 2, pages 181-192 
  February 2003

• Levantamento da Comunidade Grid no Brasil
  Walfredo Cirne, Nazareno Andrade, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Lauro Beltrão
  November 2002

• Grids Computacionais: Arquiteturas, Tecnologias e Aplicações
  (Computational Grids: Architectures, Tecnologies and Applications)
  Walfredo Cirne
  Anais do Terceiro Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho
  (Proceedings of the Third Workshop on High Perfomance Computing Systems)
  October 2002

• Using Moldability to Improve the Performance of Supercomputer Jobs
  Walfredo Cirne and Francine Berman
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 62, no. 10, pages 1571-1601
  October 2002

• Usando Performance Relativa para Avaliar Desempenho em Supercomputadores Paralelos
  (Using Relative Performance to Gauge Parallel Supercomputer Performance)
  Josilene Aires Moreira and Walfredo Cirne
  Anais do Terceiro Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho
  (Proceedings of the Third Workshop on High Perfomance Computing Systems)
  October 2002

• Response Time Analysis of Gang Scheduling for Real Time Systems
  Fabrício A. B. Silva, Ernesto P.Lopes, Eliana P. L. Aude, Flavio Mendes, Júlio T.C. Silveira, Henrique Serdeira, Mario Martins, and Walfredo Cirne
  Proceedings of the SPECTS 2002 - 2002 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
  July 2002

• Using Remote Memory to Stabilise Data Efficiently on an EXT2 Linux File System
  Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, Erick B. Passos, Tatiana S. Stanchi
  Anais do SBRC 2002 - 20° Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores
  (Proceedings of the SBRC 2002 - 20th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks)
  May 2002
  (This paper received a Honor Mention Award)

• A Comprehensive Model of the Supercomputer Workload
  Walfredo Cirne and Francine Berman
  Proceedings of the WWC-4: IEEE 4th Annual Workshop on Workload Characterization
  December 2001

• Open Grid: A User-Centric Approach for Grid Computing
  Walfredo Cirne and Keith Marzullo
  Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
  September 2001

• A Model for Moldable Supercomputer Jobs
  Walfredo Cirne and Francine Berman
  Proceedings of the IPDPS 2001 - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
  April 2001

• Adaptive Selection of Partition Size for Supercomputer Requests Walfredo Cirne and Francine Berman
  Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
  May 2000  

• Combining Workstations and Supercomputers to Support Grid Applications: The Parallel Tomography Experience Shava Smallen, Walfredo Cirne, Jaime Frey, Francine Berman, Rich Wolski, Mei-Hui Su, Carl Kesselman, Steve Young, and Mark Ellisman
  Proceedings of the HCW'2000 - Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
  May 2000  

• Benchmarks and Standards for the Evaluation of Parallel Job Schedulers Steve Chapin, Walfredo Cirne, Dror Feitelson, James Jones, Scott Leutenegger, Uwe Schwiegelshohn, Warren Smith, and David Talby
  In "Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing", D. Feitelson and L. Rudolph (Eds.)
  Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1659, pp. 66-89, 1999
  April 1999  

• The Computational Co-op: Gathering Clusters into a Metacomputer Walfredo Cirne and Keith Marzullo
  Proceeding of the IPPS/SPDP'99 Symposium
  April 1999
  (An extended version of this paper is available as UCSD/CSE Tech Report CS99-611)

• On Interfaces to Parallel I/O Subsystems Anais da VII Semana de Informática da UFBA
  (Proceedings of the UFBA Computer Science Week)
  May 1998

• Bouncer: A Robust and Flexible License Management Service for Avoiding Illegal Use of Software Anais do XI Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software
  (Proceedings of the XI Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering)
  October 1997

• Bouncer – Um Serviço Distribuído e Tolerante a Faltas para Controle de Licenças de Software (Bouncer – A Distributed and Fault Tolerant Service to Control Software Licenses)
  Anais do VII Simpósio de Computadores Tolerantes a Falha
  (Proceedings of the VII Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computers)
  July 1997

• Security Issues in Agent Based Computing Anais do XV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores
  (Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks)
  May 1997

• Introduzindo Segurança no Correio Eletrônico Internet (Adding Security to the Internet Electronic Mail)
  Anais do XV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores
  (Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks)
  May 1997

• ASIMAV: Ambiente de Simulação de Máquinas Virtuais (ASIMAV: An Environment to Simulate Virtual Machines)
  Anais do II Congresso Iberoamericano de Informática na Educação
  (Proceedings of the II Latin American Congress on Computer Science on Education)
  October 1994

• A Hora da Escolha (Time to Choose) Brazilian Computerworld, number 65, vol. II
  April 4th 1994

• Um Ambiente para Aquisição Automática de Conhecimento a Partir de Exemplos (An Environment for Automatic Knowledge Acquisition by Examples)
  Anais da XIX Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informatica
  (Proceedings of the XIX Latin American Conference on Computer Science)
  August 1993

• Modelling the Real World for Knowledge Acquisition Inductive Methods Proceedings of INFORMATICA'93 - Computer Science International Congress
  June 1993

• Modelagem do Domínio para os Métodos Indutivos de Aquisição de Conhecimento (Domain Modelling for Inductive Knowledge Acquisition Methods)
  Anais do 9^o Simpósio Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial
  (Proceedings of the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence)
  October 1992

• A4 - Ambiente de Apoio à Aquisição Automática de Conhecimento (A4 - An Environment to Help Automatic Knowledge Acquisition)
  Anais do 9^o Simpósio Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial
  (Proceedings of the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence)
  October 1992

• Aquisição de Conhecimento Através de Aprendizado Automático (Knowledge Acquisition via Automatic Learning)
  Anais do 2^o Simposio de Inteligencia Artificial y Robotica
  (Proceedings of the 2nd Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Symposium)
  November 1991

• Indução Semântica de Regras Modulares (Semantic Induction of Modular Rules)
  Anais do 8^o Simpósio Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial
  (Proceedings of the 8th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence)
  November 1991

• Ferramentas para Auxílio à Manutenção e Codificação de Programas em C (Tools to Help the Maintenance and Coding of C Programs)
  Anais do V Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software
  (Proceedings of the V Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering)
  October 1991

• O Uso de Semântica na Construção e Expansão de árvores de Decisão Indutivas (Using Semantics to Build and Expand Inductive Decision Trees)
  Anais da XVII Conferência Latinoamericana de Informática
  (Proceedings of the XVII Latin American Conference on Computer Science)
  July 1991

• Expansão Semântica para os Métodos de Aquisição de Conhecimento da Família TDIDT (Semantic Expansion for TDIDT Knowledge Acquisition Methods)
  Anais do 1^o Simposio de Inteligencia Artificial y Robotica
  (Proceedings of the 1st Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Symposium)
  November 1990

• Um Algoritmo Baseado em Conhecimento para Ampliar a Potencialidade do ID3 (A Knowlegde-Based Algorithm to Improve ID3)
  Anais do 7^o Simpósio Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial
  (Proceedings of the 7th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence)
  November 1990

• Sassá - Um Compilador Escrito em Prolog (Sassá - A Compiler Written in Prolog)
  Anais da III Semana de Informática da UFBA
  (Proceedings of the III Computer Science Week at UFBA)
  March 1990

• BRODESE - Uma Biblioteca para Construção de Sistemas Especialistas (BRODESE - A Library for Building Expert Systems)
  Anais do 6^o Simpósio Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial
  (Proceedings of the 6th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence)
  November 1989

6. Program Committees

• XXVII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2009)

• Forth Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART 2009)

• Program Chair of the Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services (SMTPS) Special Focus on Cloud Computing

• 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing (Cloud 2009)

• 14th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2009)

• High Performance Computing Asia 2009 (HPCAsia'2009)

• Eleventh IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2009)

• 6th Workshop on Grid Computing and Applications (WCGA'2008)

• Program Chair of the 20th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2008)

• 9th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2008)

• 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008)

• Program Co-Chair of the 5th International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2007)

• 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007)

• 13th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2007)

• Program Chair of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007)

• 12th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2006)

• 18th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2006)

• 1st International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Engineering (PDCE 2006)

• 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2006)

• 6th International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing (GP2PC 2006)

• 1st International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2006)

• 11th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2005)

• 17th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2005)

• 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2005)

• 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2005)

• 2nd International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2005)

• 6^o Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho (WSCAD 2005)

• 10th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2004)

• 16th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2004)

• 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2004)

• 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2004)

• 1st International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P 2004)

• 5^o Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho (WSCAD 2004)

• Co-chair at the 5^o Workshop de Testes e Tolerância a Falhas (WTF 2004) 

• 31^o Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (SEMISH 2004)

• 9th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2003)

• 15th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2003)

• 1st International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2003)

• 4^o Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho (WSCAD 2003)

• 2^o Workshop de Desempenho de Sistemas Computacionais e de Counicação (WPerformance 2003)

• 8th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2002)

• 14th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2002)

• 3^o Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho (WSCAD 2002)